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Description:Excerpt from Brassica Crosses: A Lecture Delivered Before the Lincoln Society, January 16th, 1908 Probably no more fitting subject could be chosen for one of the papers to be read at a Conference of the Royal Horticultural Society in the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign. Appropriate as the subject undoubtedly is, I cannot but think that our worthy Secretary might have made a far happier choice when selecting a speaker. It is manifestly impossible for anyone of my age to state from personal knowledge what the condition of the Vegetable Garden was in 1837, and it is therefore impossible for me to say from my own observation what progress has been made. Mr. Wilks invited my father (now in his 83rd year) to contribute a paper on this subject, but, like many others whose memory carries them back over the past sixty years, his physical powers are not equal to his mental activity, and he was compelled to decline. Although yielding to Mr. Wilks's somewhat pressing request that I would myself prepare a paper, I feel I owe this assembly an apology for attempting what others could do so much better. It was only possible for me to glean the necessary information from those who were actively engaged in horticultural pursuits at the time when our Gracious Sovereign came to the throne, and though I have met with the greatest willingness to impart knowledge, it is a somewhat remarkable fact that my correspondents had a far clearer recollection of fruits, methods of culture, and even the scale of garden wages, than they had of the Vegetables grown in 1837. I can only conclude that there was nothing particularly striking about the Vegetables in use at that time, at least as regards their intrinsic merit. It will be noticed that the title refers to Progress in Vegetable Cultivation, but I do not suppose I was intended to speak so much of the cultivation as of the improvement of the Vegetables cultivated. Had it been otherwise, I cannot doubt that one of the many able gardeners connected with the Society would have been invited to read a paper rather than myself. In sketching the outline of my paper I therefore felt that I could not do better than take the leading Vegetables, enumerating the kinds in cultivation in 1837, and then briefly mention the improvements that have since followed. It is obvious that unless there had been a very marked advance in the Vegetables grown, the progress in cultivation would have been comparatively insignificant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brassica Crosses: A Lecture Delivered Before the Lincoln Society, January 16th, 1908 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Brassica Crosses: A Lecture Delivered Before the Lincoln Society, January 16th, 1908 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Brassica Crosses: A Lecture Delivered Before the Lincoln Society, January 16th, 1908 Probably no more fitting subject could be chosen for one of the papers to be read at a Conference of the Royal Horticultural Society in the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign. Appropriate as the subject undoubtedly is, I cannot but think that our worthy Secretary might have made a far happier choice when selecting a speaker. It is manifestly impossible for anyone of my age to state from personal knowledge what the condition of the Vegetable Garden was in 1837, and it is therefore impossible for me to say from my own observation what progress has been made. Mr. Wilks invited my father (now in his 83rd year) to contribute a paper on this subject, but, like many others whose memory carries them back over the past sixty years, his physical powers are not equal to his mental activity, and he was compelled to decline. Although yielding to Mr. Wilks's somewhat pressing request that I would myself prepare a paper, I feel I owe this assembly an apology for attempting what others could do so much better. It was only possible for me to glean the necessary information from those who were actively engaged in horticultural pursuits at the time when our Gracious Sovereign came to the throne, and though I have met with the greatest willingness to impart knowledge, it is a somewhat remarkable fact that my correspondents had a far clearer recollection of fruits, methods of culture, and even the scale of garden wages, than they had of the Vegetables grown in 1837. I can only conclude that there was nothing particularly striking about the Vegetables in use at that time, at least as regards their intrinsic merit. It will be noticed that the title refers to Progress in Vegetable Cultivation, but I do not suppose I was intended to speak so much of the cultivation as of the improvement of the Vegetables cultivated. Had it been otherwise, I cannot doubt that one of the many able gardeners connected with the Society would have been invited to read a paper rather than myself. In sketching the outline of my paper I therefore felt that I could not do better than take the leading Vegetables, enumerating the kinds in cultivation in 1837, and then briefly mention the improvements that have since followed. It is obvious that unless there had been a very marked advance in the Vegetables grown, the progress in cultivation would have been comparatively insignificant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brassica Crosses: A Lecture Delivered Before the Lincoln Society, January 16th, 1908 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Brassica Crosses: A Lecture Delivered Before the Lincoln Society, January 16th, 1908 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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